Rodent aren’t something that most people think about; however, the minute that the clock strikes two in the morning it will have your attention quickly.
You’re lying in bed trying to fall asleep in a perfectly quiet house and then it hits! Scratch scratch scratch! Noise coming from the ceiling right above you. At this point you no longer have to convince yourself that it’s a possum, you are awake and are trying to run the numbers in your head as to how serious it could possibly be.
Possible serious? Yes is the answer to that question.
Most Sydneysiders don’t discuss the rat problem in their city until they have it right on their own roof. This makes perfect sense once you consider Sydney’s geography. There are creek lines that run through suburbs like arteries, bush corridors that run up against the new estates being built in suburbs like Marsden Park and Box Hill and finally, there is constant construction that clears land that the rats were perfectly content to call home. Therefore, this constant disruption does not eliminate rats from the area; it simply re-routes them to your wall, your sub-floor and you’re ceiling. See rodent control Sydney
Simply put, rats socialise with other rats. So, despite having successfully caught one, you have not failed – you have succeeded and now have one smarter rat to join the existing group of rats which are already in your house.
As a result of trapping and therefore eliminating the original rat, the remaining group is now smarter because of the original rat’s experience(s); thus, you must have a much larger trap size to capture all remaining rats from that group. Otherwise, they will continue to reproduce — two more rats = four rats, then eight, etc. in many cases, depending on the size of the original rat group.
You may be surprised to learn that the average adult female rat will give birth two times yearly; with each litter containing three to thirteen baby rats on average; by the time they are seven months old, they will reach maturity. So, if you start trapping rats and then stop destroying them but do not reduce the number of successful traps or continue to trap the remaining group, this will occur every fifteen to twenty days until you have a large enough population of successful traps and continued elimination of all remaining rats. Find trusted pest control Sydney
Rats are dangerous because they chew through all types of wiring (which is why most professional pest control companies will capture and remove rats before they become a fire hazard) and once you have a population of “smarter” rats, the problem will not improve until all remaining rats have been successfully trapped, destroyed and either completely or nearly eliminated from your home.
They’ll also gnaw through PVC pipe. They’ll contaminate insulation with urine. They reproduce very quickly, often producing several litters, during peak rat breeding season (which is between April and August for rats) while it’s relatively cool in Sydney.
In April, you might hear one rat scratching, but by June, after you do something about your infestation, it can be a full-blown infestation.
A true professional does things differently.
The first thing they will do is conduct an inspection. This may seem like it’s a common-sense idea but most DIY attempts go straight from inspection to treatment before identifying where rodents have entered. A professional pest technician will find out how rodents entered your property, map where the rats are entering through, distinguish between roof rats and Norway rats (because they behave differently), set up commercial bait stations along actual rodent runways, as opposed to randomly throughout the garage and seal and secure those entrance points.
One more thing they do that most DIY’ers don’t do is seal up the entrance point.
You can kill all the rats in your building but if you leave all the doors open, you will eventually get more rats in your building.
Get your home inspected, get it sealed and then sleep better!
